GINS 3100 Poverty and Development in the Global South
Can understanding human behavior help design effective development programs? This course will draw on concepts and ideas from behavioral economics and political science to explore how households make decisions within the institutional constraints that confine them, and in turn, influence the outcomes of development programs. Students will and explore solutions to development challenges in the global south - particularly, Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa - and study interventions that have succeeded in the real world. They will explore how field experiments work and design their own randomized controlled trials to examine real world problems.
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